{"id":372182,"date":"2026-09-19T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=372182"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:52:58","slug":"sankh-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sankh-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Sankh River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tragedy struck in Sundargarh district, Odisha when three minor girls drowned in the Sankh River while making preparations for the Karma Puja.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About Sankh River<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_372183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372183\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-372183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/12517_2023_11382_Fig1_HTML.png?resize=294%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sankh River\" width=\"294\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/12517_2023_11382_Fig1_HTML.png?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/12517_2023_11382_Fig1_HTML.png?w=313&amp;ssl=1 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Springer Nature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>Sankh River<\/strong> flows across <\/span><b>Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of<\/span><b> Brahmani River system.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Origin: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It starts from <\/span><b>Gumla district in Jharkhand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>flows 67.5 km in the state<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before entering<\/span><b> Chhattisgarh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course of river:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It runs a distance of <\/span><b>about 50 km in Chhattisgarh <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>enters Jharkhand <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>again<\/strong> to flow for another <strong>78 km<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It finally<\/span><b> enters Odisha <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b>\u00a0merges with the Koel river.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sankh and the Koel river join<\/strong> at<\/span><b> Vedavyasa near Rourkela in Sundargarh <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">district of <strong>Odisha<\/strong> to form a major river called the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/brahmani-river\/\">Brahmani<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Total length<\/strong><strong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">:<\/strong> Its total length is about<strong> 240 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Waterfall:<\/strong> The<\/span><b> Sadni falls (60 m<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) falls on<\/span><b> Sankh River at the edge of Ranchi plateau.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About Koel River<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Koel River<\/strong><span data-subtree=\"aimfl,mfl\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\"> flows through the<\/span><strong> <span id=\"\" role=\"button\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiRlufBnfqWAxWai2MGHWTQBUcQ3egRegoIAggACAAIDBAE\" data-sfc-inited=\"2\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(0, 29, 53);\">Jharkhand<\/span> and Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong> It originates from the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/palamau-tiger-reserve\/\">Palamau Tiger Reserve<\/a>, Jharkhand<\/strong>, and flows in the <strong>western part of Palamu District. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course of river:<\/strong> It further divides into two, <strong>the North Koel River and the South Koel River<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>North Koel River<\/strong> finally joins with the<strong> Son River.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>South Koel River<\/strong> flows across Orissa near Rourkela, before merging with the<strong> Brahmani River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the <strong>larger Damodar Valley region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dams situated on river: <\/strong>The<strong> North Koel Dam (Mandal Dam) <\/strong>is situated on the North Koel River in Jharkhand to generate hydroelectric power and supply water for irrigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Tragedy struck in Sundargarh district, Odisha when three minor girls drowned in the Sankh River while making preparations for the Karma Puja. About Sankh River The Sankh River flows across Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. It is part of Brahmani River system. Origin: It starts from Gumla district in Jharkhand and flows 67.5 km in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sankh-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sankh River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-372182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}